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The X window system (commonly X Window System or X11, based on its current major version being 11) is a computer software system and network protocol that provides a basis for graphical user interfaces (GUI) for networked computers.

I am typically using recordmydesktop to record some application interaction; however, on my system, recordmydesktop always shows the same mouse pointer/cursor (the arrow) - regardless if, in reality, ...

How do I paste from the PRIMARY selection (eg. mouse-selected text) with a keyboard shortcut? Shift+Insert inconsistently pastes from PRIMARY or CLIPBOARD, depending on the application.
Background:
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I'm working on a display manager. When an X server is already started, my display manager works fine and is able to log in a user. However, in order for it to be a proper display manager, it needs to ...

i am setting up a vnc server (vnc4server on mint) and i have a default xstartup file in ~/.vnc. i am using twm window manager. when i connect to the vnc server, i can authenticate successfully and see ...

Have been experiencing problems with my laptop display usually brought on by interacting with graphics images in chromium web browser. When it happens the display goes haywire as if the horizontal and ...

I'm looking for a cross linux method to detect if screensaver (both XScrenSaver and non-XSCreenSaver) is running or if locked screen is up. Bash or c method would be awesome. Can you please help me ...

My laptop's display has native resolution of 1366x768, and I connect it to my TV which has 1920x1080i. My problem is that the only supported resolution for cloning is 640x480, which happens to be the ...

A long story in short, trying to automate an ISO setup/installation process
In server(SLES11 SP2) running the installation scripts and virtualbox also installed in the same server.
using rdesktop to ...

I'm Brazilian but when I installed Debian on my machine I set the language to English (US). I prefer to keep my menus and error messages in English because they are more googable (and the translations ...

I can set my monitor off with xset dpms force off but something prevents KDE from setting it off. On the other hand, when I play a long youtube video it might go off (!). This correctly happens after ...

Is there a command to get the number of (visible or iconified) X11 windows? The command
$ xwininfo -children -root
returns a long list of windows but most of them are neither visible nor iconified.
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I have a Django instance running in a terminal window. Any time I resize the window, the Django process dies ungracefully, leaving no record of it in the error_log file.
I tested it within ratpoison, ...

I recently installed RetroPie on my Raspberry Pi and I'm trying to find a way to (once I'm in LXDE) run a shell script that kills X and then starts EmulationStation. I can kill X with pkill x but then ...

Is there a way to have terminal applications (gnome-terminal, terminator, etc) automatically move selected text to the CLIPBOARD system buffer, and not just the PRIMARY (i.e. terminal-local) buffer?
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Let me describe what I want to achieve. We are using two-factor authentication and I would like to create script which will generate TOTP token for me and it will paste it to let's say Firefox on some ...

I've got two pointing devices (touchpad and trackpoint) and the goal is to execute a command when movement (any direction, any distance) is detected on the trackpoint, then wait a configurable amount ...

When writing latex in sublime text is often use the ^ character to insert superscript. right now the default behavior is quite annoying, as it does not insert the ^ until i press space. How change i ...

xmonad --restart used to work but it doesn't anymore and it's not a prevalent issue so I think it's probably a problem on my side. I have pasted the output of strace xmonad --restart below. I am quite ...

Is there an XKB way to generate a key event, form a normal key combo which includes Ctrl without having the ctrl modifier bit set?
Or the same question asked in another way: Can I have an eight-level ...

I have been in a situation where my desktop has crashed and become unresponsive. (In my case it was the Cinnamon DE, and I have yet to try cinnamon --replace from the commandline, BTW)
I was using a ...